The neonatal intensive care unit at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital has become the first hospital in the east of England region to achieve gold accreditation for the Bliss Baby Charter.

Ickle Pickles' annual London Incubator Ball raised more than £88,000 at the glamorous Plaisterers' Hall in central London.

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership is calling for nominations for the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards, part of Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025. These awards celebrate excellence in clinical audit and quality improvement across healthcare.

Sands has won the Charity of the Year Award at the 2025 GLOMAMA Awards. Baby Loss Awareness Week also won Campaign of the Year for the second year in a row.

A new parent and baby residential bay at the Dyson Centre for Neonatal Care has been named the Lori Grace room, in memory of a newly-qualified paediatric nurse who sadly died before she began working there.

Health Secretary Jeremy Miles has set out new standards and expectations for high quality and safe maternity and neonatal services in Wales.

A father whose son spent around 100 days being cared for by the team on the NICU at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey, is supporting other parents to come together to share similar experiences of having a baby who has received or is receiving care on the NICU.

More than 660 premature babies have been supported by Speech and Language Therapists (SLT) in Wolverhampton, enabling them to go home earlier.

The Department of Business and Trade has confirmed that the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act will come into effect from 6 April this year, helping alleviate the stress on parents with a child in hospital.

The Royal College of Midwives has welcomed an announcement of new funding for infant feeding and perinatal mental health support. Thousands of parents and children across England will be able to give their child the best start in life thanks to a £126 million government funding boost.

The Staff Wellbeing (SWell) project, led by Aston University researchers in collaboration with Birmingham Children’s Hospital and NHS England, has developed two simple, easy-to-deliver sessions to improve the wellbeing of staff in paediatric critical care (PCC) units in UK hospitals.

The Children’s Air Ambulance had another exceptionally busy year in 2024, transferring 200 critically ill babies and children across the UK, ensuring they receive the specialist care they urgently need. This marks the second consecutive year the charity has completed 200 missions, the highest number of missions in a year.